About

Full Professor in Exclusive Dedication at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogotá Campus. Attached to the Department of Civil and Agricultural Engineering of the School of Engineering. He is also the leader and Senior Researcher of the Hydrodynamic Research Group of the Natural Media - HYDS (Category B in Minciencias). Civil engineer with minor in Water and Environment and Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Doctor with a European mention in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona Tech), specializing in hydrogeology. Lecturer of the courses of Groundwater Hydraulics, Environmental Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling and Stochastic Methods in Water Resources in the Graduate Program in Water Resources Engineering and among other undergraduate courses of the Hydrosystems Modeling Workshop: Hydrology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has directed master's and doctoral theses in the area of ​​hydrogeology and water resources. He has publications in the highest impact international journals such as Water Resources Research or the Journal of Hydrology, where he is also a permanent reviewer. He was coordinator of the Undergraduate and Doctoral Programs in Civil Engineering and Director of Academic Programs in Civil and Agricultural Engineering. At present he is Coordinator of the Hydraulic and Hydraulic Testing Laboratories of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In addition, he is Vice President of the Permanent Technical Commission of Water Resources Engineering of the Colombian Society of Engineers and member of the Board of the Colombian Association of Hydrogeologists. He is also part of the American Geophysical Union, the International Association of Hydrogeologists, the International Association for Research and Hydroenvironmental Engineering, where he is part of the Groundwater Committee, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and the International Society of Porous Media INTERPORE, where leads the Colombia Chapter. From his beginnings as an engineer, he dedicated a large part of his experience to the modeling of processes and phenomena of flow and contamination of underground and surface water resources. He has made models applied to the analysis of hydrosystems such as the Morroa Aquifer for the Colombian Geological Service and the Valle del Cauca Aquifer for the CVC, theoretical models of transport of reactive substances, models of highly complex systems such as fractured massifs and some applications in works premises such as the Line Tunnel and the Sumapaz Tunnel for the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. He has been a consultant for the UNDP and the Development Bank of Latin America, CAF, INVÍAS and the Ministry of Mines and Energy, and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in Hydrogeological Modeling. He was part of the Independent Interdisciplinary Commission to recommend to the Colombian State the measures for the deployment of hydraulic fracturing in Colombia. Currently, he is the Lead Researcher of the MEGIA Research Project to carry out the Hydrodynamic Model for Water Governance in the North of the Middle Magdalena Valley.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Numerical Analysis Mathematical Modelling Numerical Modeling Simulation Modeling and Simulation Environmental Impact Assessment Environment Hydrological Modeling Curriculum Development Water Resources Management

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